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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 25 May 1988

Although there were about 4 000 complaint cases and various forms of] disciplinary or internal action taken against 1 417 police officers in 1987, these figures should be seen and interpreted in the light of at least 3.3 million potential police-public confrontation situations, including 2 million persons stopped and checked through the police operational nominal index computer system and 1.3 million traffic summonses and tickets issued by the police, in the same year. The difficult nature of the front line duties the police are tasked to perform to protect the community should also be borne in mind. Having said this, the committee would like to pledge its continued determination to safeguard the integrity of investigations into complaints against the police, and to try its best to be worthy of the trust you have placed in the committee.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all the government departments concerned, in particular the Commissioner of Police and all officers in his Com- plaints and Internal Investigations Branch, for their co-operation and assis- tance rendered to the committee and its secretariat. I would also like to record my appreciation for the contribution and support by all Members of this Council. Thank you.

Oral answers to questions

Shortage of Secondary I places in the north-eastern New Territories

1. MR. CHEUNG asked (in Cantonese): Will Government inform this Council what effective measures will be taken to tackle the problem of the serious shortage of Form I places in the new towns of the north-eastern New Territories without affecting the quality of education?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, measures being taken to tackle the regional shortfall in secondary school places in Sha Tin, Tai Po and North districts were detailed in a reply to a question in this Council on 3 June 1987. They include the following:

adding seven more schools to the school building programme, for comple- tion by September 1991. This brings to 30 the number of new secondary schools being built in the region;

-advancing the completion dates of new schools to the maximum extent that

site constraints allow;

-advancing the opening of new schools by having two schools share a newly

completed building in its first year of operation;